Thru Hiker’s Budget Gear List: $970, 9.4lbs

People often think that hiking has to be expensive. You can definitely spend a lot, but there are genuine options out there that work extremely well for minimal investment.

This list is Thru Hiking worthy, and I would be happy to stand at the southern terminus of the PCT with everything on this list. There are other pieces of gear out there that are cheaper, but I have only included high quality items that I would use.

I decided to develop this article as I have seen other budget gear suggestions that are either not feasible or blatantly unsafe (e.g. including a cheap tent that will either leak, or just break in a storm). To counteract giving misleading advice, I developed a core outlines that I used for this gear list (and price was not even in the top 3 considerations):